Dog owner scared to enter own yard after discovering bloody scene

A dog owner has come home from work to discover one of her pet dogs bloody and wounded, seemingly attacked by other dogs.

A dog owner is scared to enter her own backyard after coming home from work to find one of her beloved pet dogs wounded and bloody out the back of her house.

Western Sydney resident Rhonda Batchelor described what she saw to A Current Affair upon discovering eight-year-old bull arab cross Shelby and rottweiler kelpie cross Marley in the bloody scene.

Ms Batchelor said she found Shelby covered in “gashes and puncture wounds”, while Marley appeared unharmed.

Rhonda's two dogs, Shelby and Marley. Picture: Nine

“There were pools of blood everywhere and I was calling out to Shelby and not getting a response,” she said.

“She (Marley) was pristinely clean, not an ounce of dirt, blood or saliva on her.”

Ms Batchelor was at a loss as to what could have happened until she noticed damage to her back fence that looked as if someone had tried to quickly repair it.

“We saw that there are shreds and tears in the Colorbond fencing,” she said.

This prompted Ms Batchelor to peer over the fence where she was met with a hostile response from her neighbour’s staffies.

This prompted Ms Batchelor to peer over the fence where she was met with a hostile response from her neighbour’s staffies.

“The one that was looking at the fence saw me and just launched itself at the fence, at me, so I had to recoil off the chair and come inside and I haven’t been in my backyard since,” she said.

Ms Batchelor believes that Shelby was wounded while trying to protect Marley from the neighbour’s dogs who had gained access to her yard.

Damage to the fence discovered after the alleged attack. Picture: Nine

Shelby, who almost lost one of her back legs due to the injuries, ended up with multiple stitches and drains with Ms Batchelor not sure she would survive the ordeal.

“I thought she’d died on the back seat of the car,” she said.

Penrith City Council was made aware of the incident, launching an investigation, with Ms Batchelor adamant she knows what happened.

“I know that they were in our yard, I know that they pushed through the fence,” she said.

“I’ve got a vet report that’s consistent with a dog that has been attacked by multiple dogs.”

However, the council’s response was less than adequate in Ms Batchelor’s eyes.

“I received an email saying that the council investigation concluded that there were those dogs in my backyard,” she said.

“But they could not prove what had happened, which is just ludicrous, and that they’re not taking any action whatsoever.”

Shelby following the alleged attack. Picture: Nine

Penrith council in a statement said its hands were tied in the matter, with the neighbour disagreeing with Ms Batchelor’s account of what had occurred.

“Penrith City Council is sympathetic to Ms Batchelor’s complaint; however, investigations in the matter do not provide satisfactory evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to prosecute,” it read.

“Council officers spoke to a number of people, none of whom were eyewitnesses to the incident.

“There are differing accounts in the statements from both parties and the evidence gathered by officers as to which animal was trespassing in the first instance, how the dogs came to be interacting with each other, and/or whether they were provoked in attacking.”

The lack of action by the council now has Ms Batchelor concerned about her future.

“I can’t have my girls here,I can’t have them in the backyard at all because it’s not safe,” she said.

“It’s not safe for me in the backyard, those dogs need to go.

“The only other choice that I will then have is I have to move, break my lease and find somewhere else to live and hope that doesn’t happen again.”